Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (+ Audio CD) When Mr Bingley comes to live at Netherfield bringing his friend Mr Darcy with him, Mrs Bennet is delighted; she has five daughters to be married. However, things don’t go as smoothly as she hoped: Mr Bingley abandons Jane, Mr Darcy clearly has no interest in Elizabeth and she refuses Mr Collins’ pr...

Gina D. B. Clemen. Davy Crockett (+ Audio CD) This is the true story of a brave, adventurous man, a real American hero, who has become a legend. Davy loved danger, justice and freedom. He was the true American free spirit of the 1800s who helped to build America....

Oscar Wilde. The Fisherman and his Soul (+ CD-ROM) A story on love and friendship by Oscar Wilde. The story is about a fisherman who catches a mermaid. He lets her go because she promises to help him fish. Each day the mermaid appears and sings her song, so he falls in love with her! However, she cannot marry him until he has lost his human soul....

James Fenimore Cooper. The Last of the Mohicans (+ Audio CD) During the Seven Years’ War between the French and the British, Cora and Alice Munro are on their way to Fort Henry to join their father, the commander. But their Indian guide, Magua, betrays the group to the Iroquois Indians. This is only the beginning of their many adventures....

Marco Arnaudo. La pagina breve "La pagina breve" is an anthology of contemporary short stories, chosen to bring together the pleasure of literature and language practice. Presented in full version, the texts retain the fascination of the authors’ words and the coherent development of the story. The genres represented in the antho...

Marco Arnaudo. Classic Detective Stories (+ Audio CD) Sherlock Holmes battles against a criminal organisation in Conan Doyle’s ‘The Five Orange Pips’; in Charles Dickens’ ‘Hunted Down’ a ruthless murderer is brought to justice; in ‘The Stir Outside the Café Royal’ by Clarence Rook an American woman tracks down her fiancé’s killer; and in G. K...

Mark Twain. The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer (+ CD-ROM) Join Tom Sawyer and his friends in a series of fantastic adventures on the Mississippi River: looking for ghosts in a graveyard, witnessing a murder, living as pirates on a deserted island, attending their own funerals, getting lost in an enormous cave and finding ... "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" ...

Lucia Bonato. À l'heure actuelle (+ Audio CD) "À l’heure actuelle" is a cultural studies book aimed at false beginner and intermediate-level students (A2-B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference). The volume is lively and flexible, and covers the society and the territory, and analysis of the culture and daily life, with particular...

Cinzia Medaglia. Il Mistero di Veronica (+ Audio CD) Veronica and Massimo love each other, despite the fact that they are very different: she is a business woman, he an artist. But when Massimo asks her to marry him, Veronica leaves him. Massimo doesn’t give up and investigates the mysterious past of the young girl. A passionate story, veiled in myste...

William Shakespeare. Twelfth Night (+ Audio CD) After surviving a shipwreck off the coast of Illyria, Viola disguises herself as a boy to get a position at the court of Duke Orsino, who is in love with beautiful Olivia. Unknown to Viola, her twin brother Sebastian has also survived the shipwreck. When he too arrives in Illyria, confusion and misu...